social anthropologist and lecturer in East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Among his publications are Los ocho inmortales cruzan el mar. Chinos en Extremo Occidente (The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea. Chinese in the Far West – Edicions Bellaterra, 2003) and (co-authored with Amelia Sáiz) Els xinesos a Catalunya. Família, educació i integració (Chinese in Catalonia: Family, Education and Integration – Alta Fulla, 2001).